Rust Goldberg

A basic physics playground and underlying engine, put together for OLC CodeJam 2020.

(I intended for this to be more of a rube-goldberg simulator (hence the name), but at the moment functionality is fairly limited)

Installation:

• Just Extract the archive

Running:

• Run the goldberg/goldberg.exe binary
• Can be run as ./goldberg <levelname> if you want to manage multiple levels (There's one 'default' to start with, just pass a new name if you want a fresh one)

Gameplay

• Use the mouse to navigate the scene, spawn objects
• Use various key bindings to change spawn modes/similar

The most complicated thing possible so far is domino runs. For these set the placement mode (X) to 'instanced', and enable auto-rotate (C). Then you can draw little runs of dominoes all you like.

To trigger them just spawn a whole bunch of cubes above the run, or otherwise disturb them (Sorry, didn't have time to implement the physics gun..)

Overall it's not much functionality but should be a solid base for future work. There's a level format, the ability to save levels for later, and a way to define new primitives through blender/some ingest tools.

Currently runs on desktop Windows/Linux, but could be built on any platform with Rust support.

One of the initial goals was support for running in a browser, unfortunately that's not possible right now (Will need to rework/replace the renderer).

Source code is freely available for now: https://github.com/geefr/rust-goldberg